Animal Photos

There are two problems with photographing animals. One: they don't sit still for you; that's well-known. Two: they're usually smaller than people, so it's harder to get a shot which on film looks close-up. I did my best.

Summer in a British garden

A nice aspect of British culture is the ideal that everybody should have a garden. It breathes green into the country.

So I wandered into the garden with my camera one summer's afternoon to discover an ensemble cast of the local species of bees, wasps, and flies putting on a show. Every one of them was a star.

I took two thousand pictures in two separate one-hour bursts. Insects are small and they move fast; faster even than my camera shutter. Most of the shots were insect equivalents of the out-of-focus hand over the lens, or the heel of a foot vanishing into a Jag. Still, one or two of the images seemed worth keeping ...

Cat relationship

The four stages of a relationship (with a cat)

Cats

Cats: charming, glamourous, beautiful. They're all all psychotic, you know.

Dogs

What can I say? Woof!

Fly (Tel-Aviv, Israel)

The hebrew for ‘fly’ is ‘zvuv’. Isn't that wonderful? I wonder what these flies were thinking. They knew I was there.

Insects

I've seen many nature programmes but I was surprised when I saw how my camera had captured details of the insect I had seen only moments before, in a way my naked eye had not even come close to appreciating.

Other stuff

Just some more pics.

Pigeons (Tel-Aviv, Israel)

Yes! ‘Pigeon’ can mean posh!

Puppy (in Acre, Israel)

Tel-Aviv belongs to cats. In Acre, authority is more evenly shared.

Raven

Conversation with a local raven. Take a look; it has blue eyes.